NNA - Minister of Social Affairs, Pierre Bou Assi, on Friday highlighted the importance of collaboration between his Ministry and the civil society to achieve the sought social development.

"Achieving social development for everybody is possible, but not with the efforts of the Ministry alone, yet with the joint efforts of the civil society and the [households] in question," Bou Assi said during the launching of Bassma Association's 2017 report on empowering deprived families.

The event took place at Vox Cinema, in collaboration with the United Nations Information Center in Beirut.

Moreover, Bou Assi maintained that the main goal was to help people with special needs.

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